This is a cooking group. While nutrition is an aspect of that this is not a nutrition group.

Post your cooking. Not too much. Mostly tasty.

Can doesn’t mean ought.

If you are talking about storing sugar as fat then you are talking about weight.

Individual results may vary.
I spent 15 years being 50 pounds underweight.
No amount of glucose was changing that.

Refrigerated peanut butter is a waste of resources and makes peanut butter harder to use.

A lot of jellies, jams and preserves don’t need refrigeration if you use a clean knife, don’t get any bread crumbs in there and are probably going to empty that jar within two weeks.

Most of my bread is homemade. It’s cheap. About 77¢ a pound. I can mix up a big batch of dough and decide what to do with it later. Bread, pizza, English muffins, pitas, garlic knots, whatever. Since most of my meals are a mix of how much energy I have to cook, how much back pain I’m in and cravings it’s nice to have very flexible staples on hand that I can make things from.

I’ve had people look through my kitchen and complain there is no food. Just stuff you make food from.

Anyway there is a huge difference between the wheat based diet of 9000 years ago and my diet. I’m mixing things up with rice, potatoes and bread. They were literally surviving on bread alone. And “man can not survive on bread alone.” I’m pulling in bits of protein and yard clippings.

A lot of homesteaders get this idea. They’re going to grow 80% of their calories or more. I can’t do that. Calories are expensive to grow. They’re cheap to buy. I grow my flavor and buy my calories. You’re going to spend more per pound on basil than you will steak. I can grow basil. I can’t grow steak. Even though cows outnumber people on my block.

I am trying to grow more calories this year though. I’ve planted over 200 seeds in the last week. When I don’t know is if any of it will survive our hot summer or our chickens. But at least the chickens will give us eggs in exchange for eating my fruit and veg.

And that’s not including the 100 onions I planted earlier this year. I spent a lot of money on onions so I’m hoping this works out. Those are protected from the chickens.

I have used those in the past but they get picky about the size of the potatoes and require a lot of force so unless you spend a fortune they end up breaking. I just use a sharp knife and eyeball it.

It’s weird how humans have recently rejected carbs in all forms despite pasta and rice heavy cultures outliving everyone else and humans evolving from primates that ate so damn much fruit for so long that we literally lost the ability to make vitamin C. Ireland didn’t get obese from potatoes. People just need to relax and eat food, not too much. Mostly plants.

That rule is way off. We can expect 4+ weeks of shelf life on unwashed eggs at room temperature. The older eggs make better hard boiled eggs because they are easier to peel.

Of course they do. That’s how my cells get the calories they need for ATP.

Farm birds get a much more diverse diet because they spend much of their day foraging. Could I taste the difference between store-bought and home-raised? Probably not. Can I see the difference when I crack them open, definitely. The yolks are dramatically deeper in color.

The American standard of washing the eggs is not to make them prettier. It’s to make them so they can be refrigerated for longer-term storage.

I used to do butter and occasionally I still do olive oil if the situation is right. But these days it’s mostly mayo. I was very skeptical of the whole idea but after trying it, I can’t deny that the results are superior.

No thank you.

This brand of Swiss is a firmer cheese and this particular one is about 7 months old making it a little more firm. Sometimes people call this a hot ham and cheese because it’s not always going to melt fully.

Whites claiming the godfather would be an injustice. I think we are at an impasse. Or maybe we are thinking about it incorrectly from the beginning. The scumdogs of GWAR belong to all the people. Or rather the people belong to them, to slaughter.

Keep all of those. And Diamond. How about Jimi Hendrix and Little Richard. I thought about Tina Turner but I’m pretty sure she was covered in a previous draft.

That is good

Time to give this Nazi skinhead one more haircut.
Real close to the shoulders, like.
Whoa! His heads been decapitated.
Look at all that PSI in his aorta artery.
Whoa! Is he a gusher or what?

We don’t want Kanye. GWAR is worth at least both Bad Brains and Living Color. Send Kanye to the Amish so he doesn’t have an Internet connection.

I’ll get those bags of bacon ends and pieces, aka irregular bacon cuts. Cram them into a “half pint” canning jar and pressure can them. Then they are shelf stable for years. When I need bacon I grab a jar and toss the bacon into a pan and fry it until crispy. It basically turns into bacon bits in the process.